AOL’s Newsroom Is Now Bigger Than The New York Times’

The two media organizations have been feuding — in other media, ironically — over what they do and how they do it. Former Times editor Bill Keller played Luddite, claiming Arianna Huffington’s news aggregation wasn’t real news. Huffington, in response, argued there was validity to her site’s winning formula of reporters + bloggers + links to other sites.

And now, Business Insider reports that AOL, under Huffington, has 800 employees working for Patch, the small town news sites set up around the country, the Huffington Post has 200, and AOL has 300.

That, Business Insider reports, adds up to 1,300, which is more than the Times’ 1,200.

Low morale at newspapers isn’t surprising. The Times’ paywall has helped by forcing cheapskate newshounds buy the print paper, but in most newsrooms, journalists are busting their humps to do more with a lot less.